Say what? That's not what I've been taught all my life. I've always had the "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" version. Hold on, wait. Yes, that's what I've been taught but come to think of it, I've done everything opposite to how I'm supposed to, so I've actually always put all my eggs in one basket. The only problem is, I never knew about the second part of that. Keeping an eye on them. Ya, missed that memo.
Mark Twain was the gentleman that said this:
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| Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain was the gentleman that said this:
Behold the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” — which is but a manner of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention;” but the wise man saith, “Put all your eggs in the one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.” (Wow, no need to shout Mark Twain)
He recons you should risk all your resources in a single venture. That if you going to do something, give it everything you got. But after some searching and investigating there seems to be a great divide on opinions about the two sayings. Here are some of the quotes I found.
He recons you should risk all your resources in a single venture. That if you going to do something, give it everything you got. But after some searching and investigating there seems to be a great divide on opinions about the two sayings. Here are some of the quotes I found.
I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous. Paloma Faith
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem. Jerry Bruckheimer
I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket. Ricky Schroder
And one really weird song called "Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket" by a Marnie Stern with a lot of tick tocks and ha ha ha's. Strange.
Maybe if I had kept an eye on my basket I wouldn't have had to go through so many eggs, but at the same time, maybe I shouldn't have put them all together in the first place.
So which one is right? Well, that's going to depend on you. If you think you capable of watching that basket like no-ones business then yes, put all those eggs in there. If you have a tendency to wander a little like i do, maybe we should stick to just a couple at a time.
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